A Russian drone attack caused significant damage to the radiation shelter of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant overnight, Volodymyr Zelensky said today.
Chernobyl was the site of the world’s worst civil nuclear catastrophe when one of its four reactors exploded in 1986. That reactor is now enveloped by a protective shelter, known as a sarcophagus, to contain the lingering radiation.
The Russian drone struck the shelter of the destroyed power unit at the plant, causing a fire that has since been extinguished, he said.
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